April 2014 trial date set for nanny

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ACCUSED: Irish nanny Aisling Brady McCarthy will be tried in April 2014 in the death of a baby in her care.

An Irish nanny accused of killing a Cambridge baby in her care will face trial next April in Middlesex Superior Court.

The tentative April 7, 2014, trial date for Aisling Brady McCarthy was set during a court hearing yesterday.

McCarthy, 34, pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail when she was indicted on a murder charge last month in connection with the January death of Rehma Sabir at her family home in Cambridge.

The girl was rushed to the hospital Jan. 14 — her first birthday — after first responders answered a 911 call for a baby “possibly seizing.” She died two days later of “blunt force head injuries,” prosecutors said.

The day after Rehma died, investigators discovered blood on a pillow, a blanket and baby wipes in her bedroom, according to court documents — a find that baffled her parents, Sameer Sabir, 34, and Nada Siddiqui, 30, according to police.

McCarthy was living in the United States illegally, having come here from Ireland in 2002 under a tourist program that allowed a 90-day stay.